Join host Amy Jo Macgowan and her entertaining guests as they explore your passion & your career as a Group Fitness and Exercise Instructor.
John just told me about a new Social Media Platform for Group Fitness Professionals like us! The plan, as I understand it, is to give Instructors a place to list all their certs and classes. Our Fitness Participants can then search and confirm that we are what we claim to be 
From their site:
IDEA FitnessConnect is the largest fitness professional directory, connecting more
than 16 million consumers to more than 100,000 fitness professionals with
credentials verified by the top 14 fitness certification bodies
…And did we mention it’s FREE?
You can create your own profile here.
John is on a plane home from the IDEA conference and has promised to help me get mine set up as soon as he gets back.
To demonstrate the point that inside every “couch potato” is a Triathlete. For those of you who don’t know her, Sally is credited with the invention and tireless promotion of Zone Based Heart Rate Training. Learn more about Sally Edwards here.
I found this interview video of Sally Edwards very entertaining and motivating. I have forwarded it to my class participants. Click the link or the picture to watch it
“Working the core” is all the rage right now. But how do we incorporate core work into a class where there is not specific time for it? And how do we cue it if we don’t have a Pilates background? My guest, Trish Muse and I discuss how to work the core, with good effective cueing, in classes that are not core specific. Trish‘s experience as a Physical Therapist (she is working on her Doctorate), group fitness and Pilates instructor really help her describe how to do this. You can learn more about Trish at www.bodyproductions.com. Enjoy!
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You know that guy that is always running on the treadmill, or the one that is in the weight room every day? Wouldn’t it be fun to pull him into your class for once? Chris Freytag and I talk about getting the “athletic minded extroverts” into our classes. By allowing our participants the freedom to move without paying attention to choreography, we can attract those that would never ever consider coming to a “dance class”. Chris calls it organized chaos. Join us as we talk about the athletically inspired class and how to execute it. You can learn more about Chris at her website: chrisfreytag.com and please contact me: amyjo@groupfitnessradio.com. I would love to hear from you!
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